Open classification: food, diet, Cantonese cuisine.

Recipe name miscellaneous bean porridge

Its cuisine is Cantonese.

Types of healthy recipes

Its basic characteristics are clearing away heat and toxic materials, removing dampness and diuresis.

The basic materials are wheat (barley) 100g, mung bean 50g, plum bean 50g, raw coix seed 50g and adzuki bean 20g.

Maimi: provide energy and increase fiber quantity;

Mung beans: clearing heat and detoxifying, treating urination is unfavorable;

Adzuki bean: diuretic, detumescence, detoxification and pus discharge.

Pot method: add appropriate amount of water and materials and cook for 2 hours, or add a small amount of sugar to cook sweet porridge.

Too thin people often have loose bowels, and loose stool has a bad appetite, which belongs to spleen deficiency and qi deficiency in traditional Chinese medicine. Such people also have the characteristics of shortness of breath, easy sweating and easy fatigue. Might as well use some spleen-strengthening beans and grains to cook, such as glutinous rice, lotus seeds, fried lentils, soybeans and so on. Glutinous rice is warm, which can replenish middle energizer, warm spleen and stomach, improve spleen and stomach qi deficiency and reduce diarrhea. Lotus seeds, lentils, soybeans, yams and codonopsis pilosula also have the effects of invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness, which can improve the overall absorption and digestion. However, because glutinous rice itself is dry and greasy, people with gastrointestinal dampness, abdominal distension and constipation should not eat more.